First of all, welcome to this place
designed to discuss about Phosphorous concerns.Phosphorus is essentialfor life so it has to be consumed by
humans and animals and adsorbed by plants but ¿Where does the surplus go?
¿How does it affect to the environment?

In order to introduce about the
problem I invite you to take a look at the following video:

European Sustainable Phosphorus
Platform video

Phosphorus arrives to WWTPs and it
has to be removed in order to protect the environment from eutrophication. It
can be removed chemically or biologically. With chemical addition the
phosphorus is not able to be recovered but when phosphorus is removed by
biological processes it can precipitate through the sludge line causing damage
in pipes and equipment and here is where PHORWater acts.

PHORWater has developed an integral
management for WWTP with EBPR in order to maximize phosphorus removal and
control its crystallization in an innovative reactor to produce struvite, a
valuable slow release fertilizer.

Following this brief introduction
we will write new entries about the different areas where PHORWater is implied:

-Wastewater treatment

-Nutrients removal

-Phosphorus recovery

-Fertilizers use

-Phosphorus circular economy

-Regulation

Always within the European Union
framework.

You are invited to share your
opinion and concerns about this topic through this blog and through the google+
community LIFE PHORWater Phosphorus recovery

Links

PHORWater Blog is part of awareness raising and dissemination of project results LIFE12 ENV/000441 "Integral Management Model for Phosphorus recovery and reuse from Urban Wastewater", which is beneficiary Depuración de Aguas del Mediterráneo and where participate as partners and co-funders the research groups CALAGUA and LAGEP. The project is co-funded by the European Commission.